Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.

We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring a very wholehearted effort to it. This brings concentration. It is this power of concentration that we use to cut through the world of surface appearances to get to a much deeper reality.

Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.